A Network Team will consist of experts in curriculum, data analysis, and instruction. NYSED recommends that each Network Team consist of at least the equivalent of three full-time professionals per 25 schools. Network Teams support RTTT initiatives, providing consistent, high-quality services to ensure successful statewide implementation of the RTTT plan. Participating LEAs or Districts define the roles and responsibilities of each team member, based on the essential functions of the Network Teams and consistent with the particulars of the local setting.
Network Teams will work with educators to provide comprehensive, ongoing support throughout the grant period. They work with districts’ School-Based Inquiry Teams to make the instructional cycle dynamic and student-focused. School-Based Inquiry Teams (comprised of teachers, teacher-leaders, and administrators) are charged with becoming experts in accessing, understanding, and using data to facilitate changes in instructional practice to accelerate learning for underperforming students.
The objective of a Network Team is to deliver tools, resources, information, and training which supports the Regents Reform Agenda and overarching goals to increase the numbers of students who graduate from high school college and career ready.
Key Network Team Deliverables
View the latest update from NYSED regarding RTTT and the Role of Network Teams below.
The role of the Network Team Specialist is to provide a framework for teachers and administrators to become familiar with the Common Core Learning Standards, to make curricular decisions about what can still apply to the CCLS from current practice, identify what is currently done that can be modified, and determine what needs to be created altogether to ensure alignment of the Standards to Content, Skills, Activities, and Assessments. Teachers and administrators will begin the process of designing and modeling lessons and units built around the CCLS seeking support as needed from the Inquiry Based Team and the Network Team.
Training on Implementation of the APPR
The role of the Network Team Specialist is provide Preofessional Development in the changes the Annual Professional Performance Review system and facilitate in the understanding and implications of the NYS Teacher and Principal Evaluation Law 3012-c. Teachers and administrators will begin the process of examining their current evaluation system to make comparisons, facilitate discussion, consider ways in which to improve their professional practices while aligning to the NYS Teaching Standards, and implement changes as necessary.
Implementation of Inquiry Teams
A School-based Inquiry Team is a team of professionals comprised of teachers, teacher leaders, and adminstrators that uses a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach analyze data and assess building issues, both behavioral and academic, identify areas of specific academic need, and develop strategies to address those needs. Their charge is to become experts in accessing, understanding, using data to identify a change in instrucional practice that will accelerate learning for a specific group of underperforming students. Based on what is learned from that experience, teams will work with school staff to implement and monitor system-level change to benefit all students. The reflective practice that is used as the basis for the Inquiry Team's work is intended to support continual evidence-based improvement in student learning. Training for these teams will be centered on the Four Assurance Areas of Standards and Assessments, Data and Curriculum Models, Effective Teachers and Principals, and Turning Around Low Performing Schools. In order to focus on the Four Assurances, teams will work to actively link assessments and their data with instruction and become familiar with and recommend research based instructional strategies and programs to provide targeted intervention to both individuals and groups.
For more on Research Based Instructional Strategies, (RBIS), visit this page within the wiki.
The Role of the Network Team
A Network Team will consist of experts in curriculum, data analysis, and instruction. NYSED recommends that each Network Team consist of at least the equivalent of three full-time professionals per 25 schools. Network Teams support RTTT initiatives, providing consistent, high-quality services to ensure successful statewide implementation of the RTTT plan. Participating LEAs or Districts define the roles and responsibilities of each team member, based on the essential functions of the Network Teams and consistent with the particulars of the local setting.
Network Teams will work with educators to provide comprehensive, ongoing support throughout the grant period. They work with districts’ School-Based Inquiry Teams to make the instructional cycle dynamic and student-focused. School-Based Inquiry Teams (comprised of teachers, teacher-leaders, and administrators) are charged with becoming experts in accessing, understanding, and using data to facilitate changes in instructional practice to accelerate learning for underperforming students.
The objective of a Network Team is to deliver tools, resources, information, and training which supports the Regents Reform Agenda and overarching goals to increase the numbers of students who graduate from high school college and career ready.
Key Network Team Deliverables
View the latest update from NYSED regarding RTTT and the Role of Network Teams below.
Training on Implementation of the Common Core
The role of the Network Team Specialist is to provide a framework for teachers and administrators to become familiar with the Common Core Learning Standards, to make curricular decisions about what can still apply to the CCLS from current practice, identify what is currently done that can be modified, and determine what needs to be created altogether to ensure alignment of the Standards to Content, Skills, Activities, and Assessments. Teachers and administrators will begin the process of designing and modeling lessons and units built around the CCLS seeking support as needed from the Inquiry Based Team and the Network Team.Training on Implementation of the APPR
The role of the Network Team Specialist is provide Preofessional Development in the changes the Annual Professional Performance Review system and facilitate in the understanding and implications of the NYS Teacher and Principal Evaluation Law 3012-c. Teachers and administrators will begin the process of examining their current evaluation system to make comparisons, facilitate discussion, consider ways in which to improve their professional practices while aligning to the NYS Teaching Standards, and implement changes as necessary.Implementation of Inquiry Teams
A School-based Inquiry Team is a team of professionals comprised of teachers, teacher leaders, and adminstrators that uses a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach analyze data and assess building issues, both behavioral and academic, identify areas of specific academic need, and develop strategies to address those needs. Their charge is to become experts in accessing, understanding, using data to identify a change in instrucional practice that will accelerate learning for a specific group of underperforming students. Based on what is learned from that experience, teams will work with school staff to implement and monitor system-level change to benefit all students. The reflective practice that is used as the basis for the Inquiry Team's work is intended to support continual evidence-based improvement in student learning. Training for these teams will be centered on the Four Assurance Areas of Standards and Assessments, Data and Curriculum Models, Effective Teachers and Principals, and Turning Around Low Performing Schools. In order to focus on the Four Assurances, teams will work to actively link assessments and their data with instruction and become familiar with and recommend research based instructional strategies and programs to provide targeted intervention to both individuals and groups.For more on Research Based Instructional Strategies, (RBIS), visit this page within the wiki.